Outlet of revolutionary words hoping to sprout.
AFRICA the vein of the world; Babylon the cutter

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

”Eliza Harris” by Frances Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911, was a
dear poet and lecturer of the Anti-Slavery Society connected to the Abolitionist
movement, the Underground Railroad, the
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the A. M. E. Church. Her first volume, Poems on Various Subjects, was published
in 1854, and later followed by Moses: A
Story of the Nile (1869), Poems (1871)
and Sketches of Southern Life (1872).
Here you have the poem “Eliza Harris”:

The quote of the month

"Knowing the benefits that have resulted to this country from the Slave Trade, I think it would have been advisable to institute rather than abolish such a Trade; for I know that if it had not been for that Trade, this country would never have been in its present independent situation."